[123] Polwhele says that Pellew lived in the house where his own mother and grandmother had resided.
[124] The Cleopatra's crew numbered 320, the Nymphe's only 240.
[125] Admiral Reynolds was afterwards drowned in the Baltic, in the St. George, on Christmas Day, 1811. One of the writer's uncles, William Hawken, a Truro boy, and an excellent swimmer, who was a midshipman on board, was also, with many others, drowned.—W. H. T.
[126] Pellew had four sons and two daughters.
[127] He had a jaguar on board at the bombardment of Algiers. He gave the animal, on his return to England, to the Marchioness of Londonderry, who presented it to the Tower menagerie.
[128] Whilst holding this appointment he received Queen Caroline on her arrival in Plymouth Sound, and was one of the witnesses at her celebrated trial. The mob were so exasperated at his evidence that, on the night of June 8th, 1820, they broke his windows, whereupon he issued from the house with sword and pistol, and dispersed them.—The Greville Memoirs.